For consultants, facilitators or OD specialists, a house's familiar image will help their clients see, think and feel their ways solving their business issues. No need for dry and hard-to-remember management schemas. The striking visual and active methods shown here deeply engage clients&nbsp;-&nbsp;they get it right away. The House and its 'Rooms' make sense to them, and they willingly start working with you. The Our House model has many of these 'Rooms' where complex business issues are sorted into one area at a time. The focus, the mood and the process vary with each Room, and the author reveals an entirely original consulting process each time. Disciplined creativity begins: loosening the grip of the past in the Attic; testing business&nbsp;foundations in the Cellar; preparing a meal the customer would love in the Kitchen; suppliers, maintenance and low-hanging fruit in the Garden; the team's dirty washing in the Laundry; elimination and waste goes into the Toilet; frank talk and vision alignment take place at the Dining Table; big systems perspectives can be seen from the Balcony; analysis in the Study; conversation and connection in the Living Room. The simplicity of the images of a House and its Rooms belies their frugality and their strength. In each Room, your clients are put throughsomething demanding yet liberating. They see things differently and they see different things. Our Houseshows you how to succeed with simple action methods that are enlightening and strong.

Our House: Visual and Active Consulting

Williams, Antony

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

Analyzes therapists' and supervisors' roles and functions and offers creative techniques for supervisors working with psychologists, social workers, counselors, and family therapists. Defines roles such as teacher, facilitator, and evaluator, and presents visual and active techniques for communication between therapists and clients, and therapists and supervisors. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Visual and Active Supervision: Roles, Focus, Technique (Norton Professional Books)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

An overview of basic psychodrama, presented in terms of systems theory and strategic therapy. It uses case examples and reports of full psychodramas to highlight its value as a therapeutic medium.

The passionate technique: Strategic psychodrama with individuals, families, and groups

Psychology & Counseling

Tavistock/Routledge

The Passionate Technique: Strategic Psychodrama With Individuals, Families, and Groups

Forbidden Agendas: Strategic Action in Groups

"Forbidden Agendas" presents a new approach to groupwork for consultants, therapists, psychodramatists and teachers - anyone who works with groups. The book is specially written for the person who is "called in" when a group or organization is in trouble, or who is asked to run a group with special needs. Antony Williams draws on his experience as a family therapist, teacher and psychodramatist to provide safe action processes suitable for groups and organizations where new solutions are required. He shows that the use of strategic action methods creates a space where spontaneity can thrive, and where group leaders can chip away at the "forbidden agendas", the invisible loyalties that prevent group members from behaving in ways that make them happy. Sometimes these loyalties have been formed long ago, pacts kept even with the dead; sometimes they are current, attempting to protect or obey other people in the group. The book is designed to build on the leader's practical skills of "warming-up" a group for change, and is studded with examples, exercises, and alternative ways of encountering the challenges of change in groups.

In this innovative book, Antony Williams establishes a 'House' as the basic analogy for approaching many business issues, and its 'Rooms' as places to focus specialist consulting interventions. He details unique visual and active processes for each Room, and provides sturdy guidelines for conducting interventions based on vision, stage, role and action.  Our House has many 'Rooms', ushering complex business issues into one area at a time. They engineer attention to task and help your clients see, think and feel their way through issues. The reader is shown how to deal with specific organisational processes in each Room: memory and the past in the Attic; business foundations in the Cellar; preparing a meal the customer would love in the Kitchen; suppliers, maintenance and low-hanging fruit in the Garden; refreshing and making good the business in the Laundry; elimination and waste goes into the Toilet; frank talk and alignment at the Dining Table; the big systems picture on the Balcony; analysis in the Study; and conversation and connection in the Living Room.  A vital guide for professionals, Our House shows readers how to manage simple action methods that are vivid, clarifying, engaging and lead to high levels of alignment.

Business & Money

Business Culture

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Our House: Visual and Active Consulting

Visual and Active Supervision: Roles, Focus, Technique (Norton Professional Books)

The passionate technique: Strategic psychodrama with individuals, families, and groups

The Passionate Technique: Strategic Psychodrama With Individuals, Families, and Groups

Forbidden Agendas: Strategic Action in Groups

Our House: Visual and Active Consulting